Art l Philosophy

Intermedia and Photography after Modernism

Raphaël Pirenne, Alexander Streitberger (Eds)

raphaël pirenne is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université catholique de Louvain (ucl) and editor of the art journal sic. alexander streitberger is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Université catholique de Louvain (ucl) and director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography.

n € 34,50 / £30.00

n isbn 978 90 5867 943 7 n April 2013 n Paperback, 16 x24 cm n 220 p. n 40 images black & white, 1 colour section n English n Lieven Gevaert Series 15

Heterogeneous Objects Intermedia and Photography after Modernism

Raphaël Pirenne, Alexander Streitberger (eds)

Exploring the influence of other media on contemporary photography Heterogeneous Objects provides various essays that explore the encounter of photography with other media since the 1960s. The essays offer new ways of thinking about photography beyond modernist notions of medium specificity and autonomy based upon the idea that a photograph does not rely on a coherent system of codes but is almost always encountered as a fragmented, partial object. Addressing recent debates in art history and photography theory, film studies, and media theory, the contributions cover a broad array of approaches, relating photography to issues of the panorama, surveillance, sculpture, transformation and processuality, and the development of new media categories. Rather than conceiving of photography as a medium, the aim is to reconsider the photograph as a historically, theoretically, and culturally embedded heterogeneous object that is always related to, in contact with, or shaped by other media.

Contributors Diarmuid Costello (University of Warwick), Steven Jacobs (University of Gent), Joanna Lowry (University of Brighton), Marcel Marburger (Universität der Künste, Berlin), Raphaël Pirenne (Université catholique de Louvain), Yvonne Spielmann (University of the West of Scotland), Alexander Streitberger (Université catholique de Louvain), Hilde Van Gelder (University of Leuven)

Previously published in the Lieven Gevaert Series

n In and Out of Brussels. Figuring Postcolonial Africa and Europe in the Films of Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Renzo Martens, and Els Opsomer T. J. Demos, Hilde Van Gelder (eds) € 29,50 / £25.00, isbn 978 90 5867 919 2, paperback n Minor Photography. Connecting Deleuze and Guattari to Photography Theory Mieke Bleyen (ed) € 34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 910 9, paperback

Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography

Ariella Azoulay

Exploring radically new possibilities for contemporary photography by an internationally leading theorist This book is the product of a unique collaboration between Israeli artist and philosopher Aïm Deüelle Lüski and visual culture theorist Ariella Azoulay. In their longstanding working relationship, they research how to theorize the structure of the contemporary scopic regime and open a space for its civil transformation. On this occasion, Azoulay interprets a particular series of cameras built by Deüelle Lüski, along with photographs taken by these cameras. Unlike conventional cameras and their vertical photography, Deüelle Lüski’s cameras seek to generate new sets of relations between the camera and the world. Azoulay’s text unfolds four different ‘short histories’ of problems in photography, each of which deconstructs what otherwise might appear as a coherent photographic regime, yet which is shown to be based solely on principles of sovereignty and possession. Through and with Deüelle Lüski’s project Azoulay seeks to ‘potentialize’ the history of photography, that is, to recover long forgotten, un-materialized possibilities. The book contains 100 images and a conversation between the author and the artist.

Previously published in the Lieven Gevaert Series

n Shifting Places: Peter Downsbrough, the Photographs Alexander Streitberger € 34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 872 0, paperback n The Art of Strip Photography. Making Still Images with a Moving Camera Maarten Vanvolsem € 34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 840 9, paperback ariella azoulay is an Israeli art curator, film-maker and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and former Director of the Photo-Lexic Research Group at the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. aïm deüelle lüski is an Israeli artist and philosopher who invents cameras, each conceived especially for a particular phenomenon or event to be photographed at a specific historical moment.

n € 34,50 / £30.00

n isbn 978 90 5867 949 9 n June 2013 n Paperback, 16 x 24 cm n 200 p. n 100 images n English n Lieven Gevaert Series 16